Hemmer.



No. 880,678. v PATENTBD MAR. 3, 1908.

A. MARTIN.

HEMMER. APPLIGATION FILED MAR. 31, 1905.

AUGUST MARTIN, OF ROCK ELM, WISCONSIN.

HEMMER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1968.

Application filed March 31 1905. Serial No. 253.497.

hemmers for sewing machines, its object being to provide a device whichwill turn a more uniform hem than the ordinary hem ming attachment, andwhich will enable the hem to be begun at the edge of the fabric.

To this end my invention consists in the features of construction andcombination herein after particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a plan view of my improved hemmer Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thesame, and Fig. 3 is an end view.

As shown in the drawings the hemming attachment is formed of a singlepiece of sheet metal bent to form a flat bottom 2 for attachment to themachine, an upwardly curved top wall 3 and a straight partition-wall aintermediate of the bottom 2 and top wall. The attachment at thejunction of the top wall 3 and partition-wall i is cut away to form atongue 5, said tongue being upwardly and outwardly bent as shown,forming a slot 6 between it and the adjacent edge 7 of the top wall 3 ofthe hemmer. At the rear end of the tongue 5 is formed a circular opening8.

In operation the edge to be hemmed is first folded to form the hem andthen inserted within the front end of the hemmer with the body of thecloth below the partition-wall 4,

and the folded edge of the cloth above the partition-wall. Asthematerial is drawn through the hemmer the folded edge of the hem willstand in the slot 6, being rolled upward by the inner edge of the tongue5. This will result in an evenly turned hem. By means of the tongue 5 itbecomes unnecessary to bend upward the forward edge of thepartition-wall 4, as is done in the or dinary hemmer, and it therebybecomes easy to insert into the hemmer the turned edge of the materialso that a hem is evenly turned from the extreme edge of the cloth.

The opening S permits the edge of the fab ric to roll over and under therear end of the tongue to form the inturned part of the hem.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is

A hemming attachment comprising top and bottom walls, a flatintermediate wall, and a tongue 5 extending upwardly and forwardly fromthe outer edge of said intermediate wall, the tongue being bentoutwardly toward its upper edge and being separated from the adjacentedge of the top wall to form an intermediate slot, said attachment beingformed at the inner end of the tongue with an enlarged opening 8constituting the rear end of said slot, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I a'lliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUST MARTIN.

V Vitnesses:

H. S. JOHNSON, EMILY F. OTIS.

